How to craft stylish home exterior spaces to achieve their highest beauty, use, and enjoyment for all sizes from a modest balcony or courtyard, through expansive estates. Design inspirations, history, evaluation, construction, selecting a contractor, and maintenance. Hardscapes, grading and drainage, plantings, lighting and irrigation.

Did your neighbor just get a hot tub? Don’t like the view? We will discuss some creative ways to use plants like conifers in containers and in screening applications. A major theme will be diversity in plant material and how to make the most of a small space.

Do you have a thing for hydrangeas but panic at the thought of which of the hundreds on the market are best for my spot? Or how to take care of the different types? Have no fear, Jason Reeves is here. He’ll simplify pruning and care for the different types and highlight some of the best performers in our area.

An introduction to artful design by the means of Ikebana focusing on living arrangements. Taking notes from nature and its season learn how to make a more natural and longer lasting arrangement for indoors.

When you think of butterfly habitat, do you imagine a cloud of colorful insects fluttering over a field or meadow? How about large butterflies flying through a garden full of nectaring plants and hostplants? Butterflies use flowers but they also need trees, too! Whether trees are providing food, shelter, or support, butterflies and moths inhabit them. Come and discover the trees and shrubs in Tennessee that might grow in your garden to support your local butterfly population.

Mona is passionate about designing edible, medicinal and pollinator gardens. She’s been featured on “Volunteer Garden” Nashville,Tennessee as well as the “Cooking with Jack” YouTube Channel. Her lecture will cover seedlings, aeroponics, vertical farming and tower gardening.

Cookie cutter landscapes are out! Progressive neighborhoods are taking an unconventional approach to the landscape, using recycled materials for structures, furniture and garden art. Want to grow your own? Food, that is! Urban gardens and even chickens contribute to table and tableau.

Foodscape design requires a well-balanced mix of flowering and edibles plants. Brie shares her top perennials for the seasonal foodscape. Learn how to layer perennials in with your favorite vegetables to increase beauty and pollinator activity. She shares management strategies to make your edible perennial border low maintenance and full of life!

The inevitability of city growth and how we can make the most of urban sites, private and public, for the greening of our cities. I am going to focus especially on small lots, front yard gardens, rooftops, and maybe even some really inspiring vertical walls.